Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said:
>> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:49 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> And the optimization there is fairly well known. We need to read in and
>>> not change the prestodelta file. It's on my short-ish createrepo list.
>>
>> Hrm, bill thought it was something on the mash side, where he validates
>> the signature of all the existing deltas to catch if a gpg sig changed
>> without a n-v-r bump.
>
> I haven't characterized that that is *definitely* what's causing pain,
> but it's a likely source.
>
> It's also a hard one to optimize unless you decree that packages will
> never change signatures, which doesn't seem practical.

We could always go to detached signatures or auto-pkg signatures and then 
only manually sign the repomd's.

-sv